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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">When you start Enterprise Architect, the first page displayed is the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Start Page</span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">This page offers the following options:</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="181" style="width:181px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Search</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Locate an object in Enterprise Architect. Type the name of the object in this field and click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">[ ... ]</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> button. Enterprise Architect displays the results of the search on the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="search_view.htm">Model Search</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> screen.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Click on an item in the search results to highlight it in the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="projectexplorer.htm">Project Browser</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="181" style="width:181px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Getting Started</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Opens the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="instanthelpwindow.htm">Tasks Pane</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext">, to display useful topics and guides for various areas of work in Enterprise Architect.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="181" style="width:181px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Online Resources &amp; Tutorials</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Open the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Resources</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> page of the Sparx Systems website, which provides access to a wide range of Enterprise Architect and UML tutorials, demonstrations, examples, Add-Ins and discussions.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="configurelocaloptions.htm">Options</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"><a href="configurelocaloptions.htm"> dialog</a>, which enables you to define how Enterprise Architect displays and processes information.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="181" style="width:181px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Open a Project File</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="open_a_project.htm">Open Project</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which you use to open an existing project (where you have more project files than can be listed in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Recent</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> panel).</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Save a new project and open the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="model_wizard.htm">Model Wizard</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Select a different <a href="createanewproject.htm">Base Project</a> to generate a new project from.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Specify a Data Source name to connect to. <a href="createanewmysqlrepository.htm">MySQL</a>, <a href="createanewsqlserverreposi.htm">SQL Server</a>, <a href="createaneworacle9iserverrep.htm">Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g</a>, <a href="createanewpostgresqlreposi.htm">PostgreSQL</a>, <a href="createanewmsdeserverrepos.htm">MSDE</a>, <a href="createanewadaptiveservera.htm">Adaptive Server Anywhere</a>, <a href="access_2007.htm">Access 2007</a> and <a href="createnewprogressopenedge.htm">Progress OpenEdge</a> repositories are supported.</span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">This feature is available in the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="559" style="width:559px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Select from a list of the most recently used Enterprise Architect projects </span><span class="f_BodyText">(both .EAP files and DBMS connections)</span><span class="f_Tabletext">. Click on the required project to open it.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">If you have created and used <a href="shortcuts_to__eap_files.htm">shortcuts</a> to your models, a model might have two entries - one for the model accessed through Enterprise Architect and one for the model accessed through the desktop shortcut. These open the same model, although the shortcut entry also enacts any view profile you have defined.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">To remove a hyperlink to a project from this list, see <a href="removingrecentmodels.htm">Remove Recent Projects</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If your model has a <a href="setthedefaultdiagram.htm">default diagram</a> set, the default diagram opens immediately over the top of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Start Page</span><span class="f_BodyText">. You can still access the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Start Page</span><span class="f_BodyText"> from the <a href="diagramtabs.htm">diagram tabs</a> below the diagram. However, if you have set a shortcut view profile, that overrides the default diagram setting.</span></p>




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